"There was no race - but to the……" — Herman Kahn
"There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans."
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37 Quotes by Herman Kahn
Herman Kahn has 37 quotes on this site.
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I'm against fashionable thinking.
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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author…
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I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the…
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A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would…
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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are…
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Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
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As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not…
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Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities…
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Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are…
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Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
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For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then…
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For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent…
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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend…
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet.…
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On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any,…
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The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are…
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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano…
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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with…
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The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what…
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Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in…
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